New York-based painter Peter Saul (born 1934) has consistently challenged the conventions of art, history and politics with his radical, unrefined style.
Positioned emphatically outside of the canon of pop art, Saul's exuberantly grotesque works exhibit an ironic and caustic humor that simultaneously breaks down and celebrates his subjects.
Influenced by both French academic painting and MAD magazine, he has become a profound, albeit unconventional, history painter, chronicling the .
Hatje Cantz Peter saul: pop, funk, bad painting and more, hardcover/peter saul
